Multiple wireless router bridging methods

With the increasing popularity of wireless (WiFi) technology, companies or families can access wireless network equipment (PCs, smartphones, tablets, etc.) more and more, so encountered wireless router signal after the wall attenuation of serious problems of the increasing number of people.

The most common solution is the wireless bridging (interconnection) of multiple routers to extend the coverage of the wireless signal, equivalent to the relay during the WiFi signal transmission. The following is the introduction of the common wireless bridging method through examples.

This article focuses on how to use two sets of Netgear WGR614V9 for wireless bridging.

Environment 1: A small office, the opening of telecommunications ADSL broadband, using a Netgear WGR614V9 share the Internet. In the corner of the conference room, the signal is weak. How to effectively improve the coverage effect of wireless network?

Environment 2: A home, the opening of telecommunications ADSL broadband, the use of a Netgear WGR614V9 share the Internet. The satellite TV receiver located under the LCD TV dm-500s need to connect to the Internet for sharing decoding, and the satellite TV receiver is only a terminal device, does not have the ability of wireless reception, and the TV accessories have no network cable interface. How can this satellite TV receiver connect to the Internet?

Solution:

1 new purchase of a Netgear WGR614V9, and existing without line by the wireless bridge.

2 new purchase of a Netgear WGR614V9, and satellite TV receiver dm-500s Physical connection, and with the existing no line by the wireless bridge.

Note: If the original wireless router in the office or home belongs to another brand or other model. Be sure to first confirm that there are no lines by the availability of wireless bridging function. Only the features of WDS enable two wireless devices to bridge.

Netgear Wireless routers, there are currently the following models support WDS: The next generation of 11N wireless routers (wnr3500/wndr3300), Wnr834bv2, Wpn824v3, KWGR614, wgt624v4 can be set according to this method.

Network topology: A broadband connection, b in the remote and a bridge.

Note: The MAC address of the Netgear router, you can view the barcode on the back of the device, or you can view it in the "router state" of the management interface, and the MAC address under the LAN port, which is the Mac for the bridge.

To set up bridging:

1, login a management interface 192.168.1.1, click on the left menu to install-> wireless settings. WGR614V9 The default wireless channel is auto (auto), you must first change the channel to a fixed value and recommend 1, 6, or 11.

Note: The wireless network identification default Netgear can also be arbitrarily named with the number of letters, to bridge the two routers, the SSID can be the same, can also be different. If you want your wireless client to roam within the range of two wireless routers, set the SSID to the same.

2, click on the left menu of Advanced-> Wireless relay function, set Bridge:

Tick before "Enable wireless relay function"; Select "Wireless Base Station" and fill in the MAC address of Router B in "Repeater MAC address 1"; If router a itself does not need to provide wireless coverage, tick before "Prohibit wireless client access"; In this case, a is responsible for the wireless coverage of the office area, so it cannot be ticked. Set up, click "Apply".

3, before the completion of the setup, router B does not access the LAN, only a computer wired way to connect to a LAN port of Route B. Also use the default 192.168.1.1 address to login to the admin interface of B, as in step one, modify the wireless channel to 11 (if 1 or 6,b is selected in step one and be consistent with a).

4, click on the left menu of Advanced-> Wireless relay function, set Bridge:

Tick before "Enable wireless relay function"; Select "Wireless Repeater" mode, in "Base station MAC Address", fill in the MAC address of Router A; When working in the "Wireless Repeater" mode, the wireless router becomes a common wireless AP, "Repeater IP Address", you can arbitrarily assign the LAN idle IP address, as the wireless AP management address, For example, in the future, if you want to log in to the device's management interface, you need to use this new IP address, rather than the default 192.168.1.1, please pay attention to this point!

Set up, click "Apply".

Inspection of bridge Connection:

Under normal circumstances, the router A and B wireless bridge can be successfully set up after the above steps are completed. There is also a more intuitive way to verify that the bridge is successful.

Connect a computer, wired to a LAN port of Route B, and see if you can access the management interface of route A. If it can be accessed, the surface bridge succeeds. If you do not have access, follow the steps above to troubleshoot, mainly check the wireless settings in the region, mode, channel and other parameters are consistent.

Bridging encryption:

The application of wireless LAN is becoming more and more popular, security encryption is necessary. However, the choice of encryption has some limitations when using WDS.

Wireless Bridge Two devices, you must choose the same encryption method, the same password. When using the Netgear wireless router for bridging, the WPA-PSK (TKIP) encryption method is used only for the same model device and the same SSID setting.

In this case, both wgr614v9,ssid are netgear to select this type of encryption. If you are using a different type of wireless router for bridging, use WEP encryption.